join()

[Michal Wallace]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Hans Nowak wrote:

> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > 
> > echuck at mindspring.com wrote:
> > >
> > > In Python 2.0, I was surprised to see join() had become a method of
> > > string. I "naturally" expected it to be a method of list.
> > 
> > Quite a lot of people screamed blue murder about
> > this at the time, and were ignored. Getting it
> > changed now seems to be impossible.
> > 
> > My advice is to boycott those methods and continue
> > using the string module, which fortunately is
> > still there.
> 
> I second that. I never really saw the need for string methods anyway...
> then again, maybe I'm just daft. :)  However, it's not unlikely that the
> string module will be deprecated, like other nice stuff. So I don't know
> if it's a good idea to boycott it. 

",".join.(sequence) makes perfect sense. There's no reason someone
can't add sequence.join(',') later.. :)

String methods are important to minimize complexity with unicode:

http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/new-python/

section 7


Cheers,

- Michal
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